Barbara Heck Exhorting Philip Embury to Preach the Gospel

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Stock #:419521
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
Publisher: The Methodist Book Concern
Postmark: 1916
Postmark City: Auburndale
Postmark State: MA
Stamp: 1c
Philatelic Notes: Flag Cancel
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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Philip Embury was for six years a highly esteemed local preacher in Ireland under Mr. Wesley. He preached his last sermon in that country from the deck of the ship on which he with eleven of his Methodist class emigrated to New York in 1760. Over these he continued to exercise a religious care, but respecting the services of public preaching he appears to have been held in check for a time by his timidity and the difficulties of the new conditions that confronted him. But under the fervid appeal of his godly cousin, Barbara Heck, he opened his hired cottage for preaching, and two years later, 1768, he dedicated the first John Street Edifice

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